- The only English place that has a name that ends with an exclamation mark is "Westward Ho!"
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- The children's nursery rhyme, "Sing a Song of Sixpence," was used by members of a pirate ship as a coded message.
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- The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan, refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
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- Playwright Shakespeare was only 18 years old when he married Ann Hathaway, who was 26 years old at the time.
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- In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art.
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- Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches.
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- Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software.
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- The expression "Tying the Knot" comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots.
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- Mona Lisa has no eyebrows in Leonardo da Vinci's painting. During that time, a woman was considered more beautiful if she shaved her eyebrows.
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- On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later.
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- Author Robert May considered the names of Reginald and Rollo before he settled on "Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer."
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- In 1943, the July issue of "Transportation Magazine" had an article entitled "1943 Guide to Hiring Women."
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